2023-03-17: Monterey Bay is stunning as always
2023-03-13: Bird of Paradise at the Hayes Mansion in San Jose
2023-03-13: Gruber has been on fire lately. Daring Fireball: U.S. Treasury: All Silicon Valley Bank Depositors …
2023-03-12: It’s difficult to plan any short Spring Break vacations. We had scheduled a trip to California for …
2023-03-04: I understand that there isn’t an avenue for enforcement, but if you park an oversized vehicle in a …
2023-03-01: 🔗 Daring Fireball: Tweetbot and Twitterrific Face the Cliff I highly doubt that anyone who reads …
2023-02-25: Late to the party, but just finished season two of Ted Lasso. I like how this season addressed the …
2023-02-13: Clown fish at the Tennessee Aquarium
2023-02-01: I’ve listened to The Commander Thinks Aloud dozens of times, but never knew what the song was …
2023-01-31: Nashville Mayor John Cooper announces he won’t seek second term I am not sure how I feel about this. …
2023-01-22: I have used toddgrooms.com as my personal blog since I obtained the domain in college. My blog has …
2023-01-19: Finished reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 📚 Wow! I added this book to my list …
2023-01-12: Currently reading: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel 📚
2023-01-08: Finished reading: Artemis by Andy Weir 📚 Thoroughly enjoyed this read. Enjoyed The Martian so much, …
2022-12-30: Currently reading: Artemis by Andy Weir 📚
2022-12-28: Paw prints in the snow
2022-12-26: After hearing Casey discuss his usage of Day One for journaling on ATP, I decided to download it and …
2022-12-25: I have had a wonderful Christmas Day with my family. I received a few thoughtful gifts. I thoroughly …
2022-12-19: Finished reading: Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs 📚
2022-12-08: Day eight of AoC2022 is in the books. This one took me a while, but I got to a decent solution. I am …
2022-12-07: Just wrapped up day seven of AoC2022. This one took me awhile, but was also quite fun. Building up …
2022-12-06: Day six of AoC2022 was definitely a bit easier than day five. I felt like my solution was a bit lazy …
2022-12-05: Day five of AoC2022 took me a bit longer than expected. The most difficult part was coming up with a …
2022-12-05: Completed day four’s puzzle on AoC2022. Started experimenting with writing actually classes in …
2022-12-03: Completed day three’s puzzle on AoC2022. I’m usually working on the puzzle towards the …
2022-12-02: Started Advent of Code last night. I usually complete the first few days worth of puzzles before …
2022-12-02: Beautiful animation of the lifecycle of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus. I found this relaxing, mesmerizing, …
2022-11-25: While cutting a piece of pumpkin pie for my two year old daughter’s breakfast: “No! Don’t cut it!” …
2022-11-24: It has been a long, but lovely Thanksgiving. We had friends over for a “Friendsgiving”, complete …
2022-11-15: Difficult to read at times. It’s absurd, to me, that this is where we are at. Yet, here we …
2022-11-13: At this rate, he would run out of fuel before completing the race. His crew chief instructed him to …
2022-11-12: He searched the room, but his efforts were fruitless. His suspicion on the whereabouts of the file …
2022-11-11: As she entered the door, she was relieved by the message on display. Her flight was on time. The …
2022-11-10: Truly interesting times when a head of lettuce outlasts a British Prime Minister. It still amuses me …
2022-11-09: There was a pit in his stomach. He had been frantically searching for it, but now he was certain …
2022-11-08: The consensus between me and some of my closest friends is that our democracy is doomed. The …
2022-11-07: The deadline is quickly approaching. Without her insight into the inner workings of the system, they …
2022-11-06: The cave was dark and empty. “Hello,” called the man. A response of, “Hello,” was returned a second …
2022-11-05: He could finally breathe easy. The letter he had been waiting for had arrived. He was exempt from …
2022-11-04: I have a deep admiration for those who are writing more long form micro.blog November entries. The …
2022-11-03: When I was sixteen, I remember the joy of obtaining my driver’s license. I was umpiring little …
2022-11-03: ⌨️ Useful alias for Fish Shell users who need to repeat the last command as sudo. Doh!
2022-11-02: Thanksgiving has long been my favorite holiday. When I was younger, the Thanksgiving feast was the …
2022-11-01: RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language I was unaware of this very important figure …
2022-10-31: Our Halloween tradition includes building our Trader Joe’s Haunted Halloween cookie house. I love …
2022-10-14: A sneak peak of Spaceship Earth
2022-10-05: One of the unfortunate experiences of preferring git CLI: entering git restore . instead of git …
2022-10-03: Cory Doctorow on TWiT with an eye opening view on the respect we show to others and other things.
2022-09-21: We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business – Eye on Design when you’re 95% …
2022-09-18: Leave it to @gruber to hit us with the term “stadium” in his iPhones 14 review. This geometry term …
2022-09-15: Justin Herbert and the Chargers are wildly entertaining to watch. I don’t watch them often, but it …
2022-09-04: Currently reading: Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs 📚
2022-05-28: Finished reading: Reborn in the USA by Roger Bennett 📚
2022-04-04: Blooming
2021-11-04: Fall is finally here in Nashville
2021-07-18: Mammoth Cave, Frozen Niagara
2021-07-09: Columbus-Belmont State Park
2021-06-20: Nature, uhh, finds a way
2021-06-12: Driveway chalk art
2021-04-18: The Classic chimed!
2021-03-30: First vaccination down!
2021-03-22: Starting to pop.
2021-03-11: Just around the corner.
2021-01-04: Opening up a Macintosh Classic for restoration.
2020-12-24: Ho Ho Ho
2020-12-19: Christmas Project
2020-11-13: Autumn colors in Nashville.
2020-11-07: Finally
2020-10-10: Rainy day walk near Kentucky Lake.
2020-09-06: I found this friend while cleaning up brush in the backyard. Closest look I’ve gotten in real life. …
2020-07-29: Sunflower in the neighborhood.
2020-06-15: Me in 1989 Max in 2019
2020-01-20: Showers at 4 AM. Such is life when you are on baby watch. After helping Ashley time her …
2019-12-03: I just finished painting baby #2’s bedroom. I considered hiring painters to do it. However, I felt …
2019-12-01: It’s always fun to wake up to fraudulent charge alert emails. Luckily it was just one attempt …
2019-11-09: No one prepared me for how much of adult hood is either looking at burned out light bulbs or …
2019-10-25: ⚾️ TIL the Houston Astros were originally the Houston Colt .45s. 🤯
2019-10-25: ⚾️ Watching the Astros/Nationals in game three of the World Series and I just had the realization …
2019-10-04: I just found out what the Q stands for in LGBTQ+. I’m proud of my Alma mater for investing in …
2019-09-04: One of the things I’m continually disappointed with are the prevalence of violent or scary …
2019-07-06: Recently reflecting on a very important, often overlooked, task: research.
2019-06-16: Jotting down some thoughts on the end of my recent lease: …
2019-06-04: I get to do one of my favorite things today down in San Jose: talk to people. Looking forward to …
2019-05-07: One of the mild annoyances of being out on the west coast for trips: missing out on live sports that …
2018-04-23: And now Psych? What!? You know that’s right.
2018-04-23: When you’re sick and you feel like death, but there is a Monk marathon on TV: it’s all going to be …
2018-04-18: Shingles update: a week later and I’m still quite itchy. The worst of it seems to be over. I hope …
2018-04-14: If you need me, I’ll be taking a nice apple cinnamon oatmeal bath. 👌🏻
2018-01-21: I think someone forgot to tell Nick Foles that he wasn’t supposed to be as good as Carson Wentz.
2018-01-15: Me, at the end of my summary to Max on why we have Martin Luther King Jr day off from work and …
2018-01-10: Last week, Ashley found the back of the Land Rover had been egged. My guess is that it was probably …
2018-01-07: At the suggestion of my wife, I started reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I’m about a third …
2017-12-01: 🎧 I can feel this narcolepsy slide…
2017-09-25: I think a future hobby I might get into will be posting random pictures of Macho Man Randy Savage on …
2017-09-19: For silly reasons, I moved this site to be a Github Pages site. At first, I thought I would enjoy …
2017-08-29: The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. — Oscar …
2017-08-25: And you may ask yourself, Well… How did I get here?
2017-08-21: via @davewiner. I love this image.
2017-08-11: Testing a microblog post workflow. 🚀
2017-08-08: My son’s daycare has an Anakin Skywalker figurine missing his right hand. ✋🏻
2017-08-01: Floating point equality is hard when you don’t think about it.
2017-07-07: Friday nights are for movies and pizza. 🍕
2017-06-16: I’m now attempting to alter the Python script to prefix the posts with the proper yaml metadata. 🐍
2017-06-16: This is a test! Just a trial balloon. 🎈
2017-05-19: I’m kind of infatuated with micro.blog. The idea of “micro” blogging is right up …